JP7123311B1 - Beauty exercise device with selective brain cooling control support function - Google Patents

Abstract

Kind Code: A1 The present invention has a function of suppressing selective brain cooling to promote facial sweating and a function of promoting selective brain cooling to reduce physical burden due to exercise, thereby suppressing facial sweating. The object of the present invention is to develop a cosmetic exercise device that is easy to cause and easy to continue exercising. The present invention is a treadmill or bicycle ergometer having an exercise intensity adjustment function, and a leg exerciser equipped with a blower for cooling the exerciser's head. By installing a heater for warming the face and allowing the exerciser to freely control and adjust the cooling of the head by air blowing and the warming of the face by heat ray radiation, the leg exercise device can be selectively used. The means is to provide a function to optionally support control of brain cooling. [Selection drawing] Fig. 1

Description

TECHNICAL FIELD The present invention relates to a beauty exercise device that provides comfortable exercise for beauty.

No one can avoid the decline in physiological functions and appearance due to aging, and everyone has a desire to be beautiful and healthy all the time. Under such circumstances, the relevance between physiological functions and beauty has been found, and devices have been proposed that seek cosmetic effects by activating physiological functions.
For example, based on physiological findings and bacteriological findings that suggest the relationship between sweat and beautiful skin (see Non-Patent Documents 1 and 2), a device that activates the perspiration function and uses sweat for maxillofacial beauty (Patent Document 1) See) and physiological findings suggesting a relationship between intestinal lymphatic flow and abdominal hypertrophy (see Non-Patent Document 3). A device (see Patent Document 2) and the like have been proposed.

Activation of physiological functions aimed at health is generally achieved through exercise, and exercise has been used as a means for improving body shape, maintaining and increasing basal metabolic rate, and the like in beauty care. On the other hand, in recent years , while there are many findings on beauty, there is a correlation between the atrophy of sweat gland cells and the presence of fine wrinkles on the skin, and sweat is a bacterium called skin-beautifying bacteria (Staphylococcus epidermidis). ), but in order to utilize exercise that involves sweat as a means of beauty, there is a need to reduce the physical burden and make exercise easier . No exercise equipment was provided.

The present invention uses exercise to produce sweat and uses the sweat to beautify the face and the whole body, but for this purpose, it is necessary to continue vigorous exercise accompanied by sweating, which is accompanied by some pain. It had the drawback of not being comfortable. For this reason, the motivation to exercise for beauty is not high, and it is not easy to maintain motivation, so it has been difficult to practice exercise accompanied by sweating for beauty.
In the past, the purpose of daily exercise was solely for health, and generally, the greater the exercise load, the greater the training effect, and it was also thought that training was about overcoming pain. There has been no demand for an exercise device that can reduce the physical burden and make the exercise feel more comfortable with the exercise load of the same physical exercise intensity .

On the other hand, in the field of thermophysiology, selective brain cooling (SBC), which is a function that cools the brain independently of other parts of the body when hyperthermia occurs and keeps the brain temperature low, exists in humans as well as in other animals. It is confirmed that it can be applied not only in work and sports in high temperature environments, and in the medical field, but also in health and comfort in hot environments, improvement of performance, etc. was shown. (See Non-Patent Documents 4, 5, and 6)

The present invention arbitrarily changes the operating environment for selective brain cooling to function by blowing air to the head in performing exercise accompanied by perspiration , supports the improvement of cooling capacity in selective brain cooling, It has a means to suppress the temperature rise, reduce the physical burden during exercise, improve the comfort and performance of the exercise, and make it easier to continue the exercise for the purpose of beauty, but at the same time, the face. A means to arbitrarily change the operating environment for selective brain cooling to function by warming the brain, suppressing the cooling ability of selective brain cooling, and promoting perspiration on the face by increasing brain temperature and facial skin temperature. It also has Some of the physiological findings that serve as the grounds for this are excerpted from the references shown later and described below. (Partially modified)
1. Venous blood coming from the face and nasal mucosa is sent into the skull via the canthal vein and the ocular vein. In addition, there are lead-out veins in the scalp, which communicate between the scalp side and the cranial medial side.
2. The number of sweat glands per unit area in the skin of the head is about twice as large as that in the skin of other parts of the body, and the amount of water evaporation due to sweat is also greater in the head. In order for the selective brain cooling mechanism to work effectively, the venous blood that returns to the skull via the outlet veins and canthus veins is sufficiently cooled by the evaporation of sweat from the head and the evaporation of water from the upper respiratory mucosa. There is a need.
3. During hyperthermia, blood flow into the cranium via these veins increases, and accordingly the relationship between the eardrum temperature and the esophageal temperature is enhanced.
4. When the face of a subject who is doing bicycle rowing exercise is continuously blown air, even if the esophageal temperature rises due to the exercise, the tympanic temperature (brain temperature) rises only slightly, and the subject can continue to exercise more vigorously.
5. Blowing or otherwise cooling the head during hyperthermia increases the "thermal comfort" even when the temperature of the rest of the body is the same, increases the maximum work output, and reduces the variety of work-related effects. reduce signs of stress.
6. Although the surface area of the head is about 8% of the total surface area, thermal stress is less when air is blown there than when the same amount of air is blown over 60% of the body surface area.
7. Studies have shown that subjects wearing helmets to cool their heads had half the increase in heart rate during exercise compared to controls.
8. Warm acclimation is obtained by repeatedly exposing a person to a warm environment or by raising the skin or core temperature. However, if air is blown to the subject's face to suppress the increase in eardrum temperature, heat acclimatization does not occur even if the esophageal temperature is the same as when air is not blown.
9. Skin temperature affects the amount of perspiration at that site. If only one part of the skin is warmed, that part will begin to sweat more quickly and sweat more.
It has been reported that by warming a part of the skin and raising it by about 5°C, the amount of sweat in that part doubles. This is thought to be due to the synergistic effect of increasing the amount of transmitter released by the excitement of sweating nerves and increasing the response of sweat-secreting cells to it.
10. If a constant localized thermal load is applied daily without whole-body heat acclimation, only certain localized sweat glands will be trained, and the amount of sweat will increase more than other parts, enabling localized heat acclimation. .
Furthermore, heat acclimation can be caused early and strongly by exercise-induced central and peripheral effects.
11. The regional difference in perspiration volume is not proportional to the density of sweat glands. This is due to the difference in the size of individual sweat glands, that is, the ability to secrete sweat. The increase in local perspiration due to thermal acclimation is not an increase in the number of sweat glands, but an increase in sweat gland capacity and an increase in sweat gland size.
12. Thermal sweating on the head is more common on the forehead and neck, and sweat appears on the rest of the face after it gets quite hot.

Patent application 2020-186844 Patent application 2020-107331

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The present invention enables selective brain cooling by arbitrarily controlling and adjusting a cooling blower to the head by the exerciser himself/herself based on the heat sensation of the exerciser when continuing intense exercise accompanied by sweating. Promotes heat dissipation in the head by altering the working environment for functioning and supports selective brain cooling to reduce physical strain and discomfort associated with exercise, resulting in sweating To provide an exercise device for beauty care which makes it easy to continue strong exercise and easily utilize sweat for beauty care .

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention provides a leg exercise device comprising a treadmill or bicycle ergometer having a function of adjusting exercise intensity and having a handle portion (2) with a table (1), and a blowing fan ( 3), fan motor (4), fan motor control circuit equipped with power switch and variable resistor, and head cooling blower consisting of variable resistor operation dial (5) interlocked with power switch. As elements, a fan (3) and a fan motor (4) are installed in the leg exercise device in front of the midline of the leg exercise device, with the air blowing direction of the fan directed toward the back of the midline of the leg exercise device. Then, the motor control circuit for the fan of the head cooling blower and its variable resistor operation dial (5) are installed on the table (1) of the handle part (2) of the leg exercise device, and the exerciser's head is By operating the variable resistor operation dial (5) interlocked with the power switch, the exerciser can operate, stop, and adjust the output of the blower for cooling the head while exercising. By changing the heat dissipation environment of the head, which is important for selective brain cooling to function, and helping to increase the cooling capacity of the brain, the physical burden and discomfort caused by exercise during hyperthermia can be reduced. It is intended as a means of reducing pleasure.

In addition, a face warming device consisting of a heater control circuit equipped with a heater, a power switch and a variable resistor and a variable resistor operation dial ( 15 ) interlocking with the power switch is installed in the leg exercise device. It is possible to heat the face of the exerciser, thereby increasing the skin temperature of the face and artificially controlling the ability of selective brain cooling, thereby shortening the time from the start of exercise to sweating. This is a means for efficiently performing facial sweat gland training.

Effects of the present invention are described below.

In the selective brain cooling experiment, the experimenter and the subject are clearly separated, so the subject himself or herself controls the wind speed for the purpose of cooling the head based on the subject's thermal sensation. It was not an experimental method that could be arbitrarily controlled and adjusted. In addition, even in the experimental method of blowing air at a wind speed corresponding to the movement speed, the control and adjustment of the wind speed was not based on the subject's thermal sensation.
However, in general, it is believed that the thermal sensation of the exerciser during exercise mainly reflects the brain temperature, and the exerciser can arbitrarily decide to cool the head based on the exerciser 's own thermal sensation. The function of the present invention, which can control the operation of the blower and adjust the wind speed, cools the venous blood in the head by blowing air to the head, and artificially enhances the ability of selective brain cooling. It has the effect of protecting the brain from heat during exercise, reducing the physical burden during exercise, and extending the comfortable time of exercise.

In experiments, it has been reported that when exercising while blowing air to the head, the temperature of the brain (eardrum temperature) rises when the air blowing to the head stops at the same time as the exercise stops, preventing heatstroke. It is said that it is effective to continue blowing air until it becomes thermally comfortable even after exercise. Therefore, control adjustment of the head-cooling blower is not automatic or passive according to a predetermined program, but the exerciser himself/herself can start and stop the head-cooling blower according to his own thermal sensation. It is possible to control and adjust the wind speed, including the ability to continue cooling the head with the blower until it becomes thermally comfortable even after exercise, preventing heatstroke and ensuring safety after exercise. It has the effect of increasing comfort and speeding up recovery from fatigue.

If the brain temperature rises due to exercise and causes thermal discomfort or pain, the exerciser can control and adjust the head cooling blower at their own discretion to increase the blowing speed to the head. be able to. This promotes heat dissipation in the head accompanied by the evaporation of water (sweat) by forced convection , effectively cooling the venous blood in the head , thereby supporting selective brain cooling. As a result, it is possible to suppress the increase in brain temperature or lower the brain temperature. As a result, the burden on the heart due to exercise is reduced, and the pain and discomfort of exercise are reduced. , can prolong the action time of sweat on the skin.

The intensity of exercise perceived as "somewhat hard" in healthy humans is around 55% of the maximum oxygen uptake, and cooling the head by blowing air reduces the physical burden and makes it easy to continue aerobic exercise. is possible. This has the effect of allowing even people who are not familiar with exercise to start exercising comfortably and easily .

It is possible to train the sweat glands of the skin of the whole body by repeating exercise accompanied by sweating, and it is expected to have a cosmetic effect of increasing the size of sweat gland cells and suppressing the onset of fine wrinkles on the skin of the whole body. can.

Exercise promotes the peripheral circulation of the whole body, increases skin blood flow, raises skin temperature, increases metabolism, and can cause perspiration. Therefore, it is possible to keep the skin clean while maintaining a healthy indigenous flora of the skin by taking a warm and safe bath after a sufficient rest period after the sweating exercise.
Healthy skin flora contains Staphylococcus epidermidis, and it is known that there is a correlation between the number of Staphylococcus epidermidis per unit area of skin and fresh skin. .
On the other hand, perspiration in the whole body can increase the number of Staphylococcus epidermidis living on the skin of the whole body because sweat and sebum serve as nutrients for proliferation of Staphylococcus epidermidis .
It has been reported that Staphylococcus epidermidis inhabits both the surface of the stratum corneum and the interior of the stratum corneum. A biological effect that increases hydraulic power can be expected.
In addition, sweat contains sodium lactate and urea, which are natural moisturizing factors, and stays on the skin and permeates the stratum corneum, thereby producing an effect of keeping the skin moist.
Accordingly, it is possible to expect physiological and biological cosmetic effects on the skin of the whole body by perspiration.
On the other hand, although it is possible to induce perspiration in a warm bath, there is a drawback in that the components of perspiration cannot be retained on the skin and acted on directly.

The effect of installing the facial warming device on the cosmetic exercise device is shown below.

By installing a heater capable of controlling and adjusting the output of the leg exercise device facing the face, the face is warmed to increase the transmission of peripheral thermal information to the thermoregulatory center and to selectively cool the brain. can be artificially inhibited to raise the brain temperature, so in addition to promoting perspiration, the direct hyperthermia effect on the local skin tissue causes dilation of local skin blood vessels and acceleration of tissue metabolism. be able to.
By heating the face with a heater from the beginning of exercise, the skin temperature of the face can be made higher than that of other parts of the body. Areas with high skin temperature begin to sweat more quickly than areas with low skin temperature, and by repeating this process, efficient and effective facial sweat gland training is possible. In addition, since exercise is used to induce perspiration, there is an effect that acclimation to heat can be caused quickly and strongly by the action of exercise . Furthermore, heating the face raises the facial skin temperature and suppresses selective brain cooling , so it is possible to induce perspiration in a relatively short time after the start of exercise or with a relatively light exercise load.
When the body is warmed by exercise and facial heating and sufficient perspiration is observed, face heating by the heater is stopped . It is easy to continue the exercise accompanied by sweating while adjusting the wind speed so that the exercise is comfortable with less physical burden .
After that, when the thermal discomfort increases further , the head cooling blower is used to further cool the head, strongly supporting the enhancement of selective brain cooling ability , It is possible to reduce burden and thermal discomfort . However, if the effect does not occur or disappears, it is appropriate to terminate the exercise.
When the sweat glands on the face are acclimatized to the heat by exercise-based sweat gland training, the amount of sweat secreted from the face increases and the size of the sweat gland cells increases. Since there is a correlation between the reduction in the size of sweat glands and the presence of fine wrinkles on the skin, an effect of suppressing the occurrence of fine wrinkles on the skin of the face due to the increase in the size of sweat gland cells can be expected.

The head cooling blower has the function of changing the operating environment for selective brain cooling to increase heat dissipation from the head and promoting selective brain cooling .
On the other hand, the face warming device has the function of inhibiting cooling of the venous blood in the face by warming the face and suppressing selective brain cooling. As a result, according to the present invention, it is possible to arbitrarily promote or suppress the selective brain cooling function possessed by humans. Since it can be performed arbitrarily, there is an effect that it is possible to safely perform exercise accompanied by perspiration for the purpose of beauty by lightening the physical burden and reducing discomfort .

In order to comfortably continue exercise that involves sweating, the exerciser himself/herself perspires and lowers the brain temperature (reduces discomfort) based on the thermal sensation of the exerciser. Since the function is to perspire (raise brain temperature) , lamp heaters such as infrared lamps and black lamps, and radiant heaters such as ceramic heaters are suitable for facial heating .
As a result, it is possible to simultaneously apply heating by radiant heat and cooling by blowing air, and to control and adjust each separately. have the advantage of

One of the ideal ways of exercising is that the amount of perspiration on the face and the amount of evaporation of sweat from the face are almost equal, and the amount of perspiration on the face is equal to the amount of sweat that evaporates from the face. It means that you can continue exercising without getting your skin soaked with sweat or getting too wet .
Similarly, in order to avoid thermal discomfort and continue sweating, it is necessary to artificially adjust the operating environment of the selective brain cooling function based on the exerciser's own thermal sensation, while maintaining the low brain temperature at which sweating occurs. The trick is to keep the brain warm in the area and adjust the airflow rate to keep you sweating and exercising.
In addition, since sweat is naturally more abundant on the forehead and cheeks sweat less than the forehead, it is recommended to locally heat the cheeks to train the sweat glands in the same area particularly strongly, A heat ray radiant heater with adjustable output installed on a flexible arm is convenient for arbitrarily focusing on areas with many wrinkles and for localized training of the sweat glands in the same area.

As mentioned above, sweating on the face is a nutrient supply for Staphylococcus epidermidis , which is a resident bacteria on the skin of the face and uses sweat and sebum as nutrients, and can increase the number of Staphylococcus epidermidis. Since it lives on the surface and inside the stratum corneum and secretes glycerin, which has a moisturizing effect, it can be expected to have a biological effect of increasing the water retention capacity of the skin from the surface and inside of the facial skin.
In addition, sweat contains sodium lactate and urea, which are natural moisturizing factors, and has the effect of penetrating the stratum corneum and keeping the facial skin moist.
As described above, since it is possible to physiologically and biologically moisturize the stratum corneum of the skin on the face, even if you have an allergy to cosmetics intended to moisturize, if you do not have an allergy to sweat, you can use it for beauty purposes. It is possible to expect the action and effect of safely obtaining beautiful skin by exercising accompanied by sweating.

The epidermis, which is the outermost surface of the skin tissue, has no blood vessels and does not transport water or substances by blood, so the metabolism of the epidermis is extremely low. It seeps out from the dermis layer in the dermis to the skin surface through the epidermis.
The outermost layer of the epidermis is the stratum corneum, which does not contain water. This is insensible evaporation, and the face and neck are the most common parts of the body. Physiological water supply to the stratum corneum is due to perspiration from the upper stratum corneum and insensible transpiration from the lower stratum corneum , and their reduction leads to dryness of the stratum corneum, which is a major factor in rough skin.
In order to dissipate the heat generated by exercise , the skin blood flow increases, the skin temperature rises, the blood flow to the sweat glands also increases, and the interstitial fluid in the dermis layer passively becomes almost constant as the blood flow increases. amount. The increased interstitial fluid becomes a source of water that passes through the epidermis and becomes a source of water that insensibly transpires. Such water evaporates from the surface of the stratum corneum through each layer of the epidermis after movement and perspiration ceases , causing movement of water and interstitial fluid components within the epidermis and improving the turnover rate of the epidermis. effect can be expected. This can be expected to have the effect of hastening the cycle in which the old stratum corneum falls off and the fresh stratum corneum appears.
By repeating this process, the skin can be expected to be moisturized by the fresh stratum corneum of the facial skin.

As described above, water is physiologically supplied to the stratum corneum by sweat and insensible evaporation from above and below the stratum corneum during exercise, and biological moisturizing is also achieved, so an effect of preventing rough skin can be expected. Moreover, such water is an in vivo substance that exists in the living body, and the beauty of the skin brought about by exercise using the present invention is physiologically and biologically achieved, and is a natural beauty. You can expect the effect of bringing out beauty and health beauty.

Other effects of the present invention

Since the sweat glands can be trained by exercising using the present invention, it is possible to improve heat tolerance by starting to use it early in the summer and training the sweat glands .

By exercising using the present invention, it is possible to achieve beauty and diet at the same time, reduce physical burden, and comfortably exercise at one's own pace in an indoor environment that is not exposed to ultraviolet rays.

In the exercise according to the present invention, it is not necessary to operate the blower when the brain temperature is not high at the beginning of the exercise . It is possible. Then, when the heat is felt and the sweat is sufficiently soaked, the heating by the heater is stopped , and the air blowing toward the head is started . The temperature drops sharply, and the thermoreceptors in the skin are transiently greatly excited, acting on the central nervous system, making it possible to temporarily experience a great sense of pleasure and coolness. In addition, there is an effect that the exercise itself can be made easy and comfortable by blowing air to the head when the body temperature is high.

In the present invention, the burden on the circulatory system due to exercise is reduced and comfort is increased. It becomes easy to continue aerobic exercise, and an effect of extending healthy life span and beautiful skin life span by making exercise a habit can be expected.

Schematic diagram showing an embodiment of the present invention in which a blower and a lamp heater are installed on a treadmill.

An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to FIG.

FIG. 1 shows an embodiment of the present invention, in which the blower of the head cooling blower consisting of a blowing fan (3) and a fan motor (4) is installed in the treadmill main body at the center front of the treadmill main body with the air blowing direction directed. It is installed with a post (8) toward the back of the midline, and can blow air toward the head of the exerciser who is exercising on the walking belt (7).
The power switch (6) of the treadmill body is installed inside the grasping part of the handle part (2), and the electric circuit for controlling the treadmill and the head cooling are installed in the table (1) of the handle part (2). A blower control circuit equipped with a power switch and a variable resistor for the head cooling blower is housed, and on the surface of the table (1) is a treadmill walking speed adjustment dial (1 0 ) and a power switch for the head cooling blower. A variable resistor operation dial (5) that interlocks with is installed.
As a result, it is possible to adjust the exercise intensity (walking speed), turn the blower ON/OFF, and adjust the blowing speed by operating the respective dials.

Therefore , when the body temperature rises, blow air to the head to change the operating environment of the selective brain cooling function so as to effectively dissipate heat from the head, thereby promoting selective brain cooling. can be done.

In this embodiment , flexible arms (1 1 ) and ( 12 ) are used on the table ( 1 ) of the handle ( 2 ) of the treadmill body, and a black lamp ( 13 ), which is a lamp heater that does not emit visible light, is used. , ( 14 ) are installed on the left and right sides as heaters for warming the face, and a variable resistor operation dial ( 15 ) connected to the power switch mounted on the lamp heater control circuit is installed as a lamp heater control dial. . Thereby, it is possible to adjust ON/OFF of the lamp heater and the intensity of radiant heat. As a result , it is possible to operate both the face warming device and the head cooling blower, and optionally change the operating environment of selective brain cooling to promote or suppress selective brain cooling. .

In the apparatus of FIG. 1, the power switch (6) of the treadmill main body turns on and off the AC power supply, and the treadmill motor and its control circuit, the head cooling blower, and the face warming device are energized. is to control

Except for the treadmill motor body, the fan motor body and the face heating heater body, each electric circuit is housed in the treadmill table (1) and each terminal wire is connected to each strut (8), (9). Alternatively, it is connected to each electric circuit through each flexible arm ( 11 ), ( 12 ).

1. Table 2. handle part 3 . fan for blowing air;4. fan motor5. (blower) variable resistor operation dial6. 7. Treadmill body power switch. walking belt8. Blower strut 9 . Toretto Mill Body Post
10. Walking speed control dial
11. flexible arm
12. flexible arm
13. Lamp heater (black lamp)
14. Lamp heater (black lamp)
15. (Lamp heater) Variable resistor operation dial

Claims (1)

A leg exerciser which is a treadmill or a bicycle ergometer with a handle (2) having a table (1) with an exercise intensity adjustment function, a fan (3) for air blowing, a motor (4) for the fan and a power supply. The head cooling blower consists of a fan motor control circuit equipped with a switch and a variable resistor, and a variable resistor operation dial (5) linked to the power switch. A blower of a head cooling blower comprising a motor (4) is installed in the leg exerciser with the blowing direction directed toward the head of the exerciser, and a motor control circuit for the fan of the head cooling blower. In a leg exercise device in which a variable resistor operation dial (5) is installed on the table (1) of the handle part, it is interlocked with the heater control circuit and power switch equipped with a heat radiation type heater and a power switch as well as a variable resistor. The heat ray radiating heater of the face warming device consisting of a variable resistor operation dial (15) is installed on the leg exercise device using a flexible arm, and the heater control circuit and the variable resistor operation dial (15) are attached to the handle. It is installed on the table (1) of the department and has both a support function for optionally promoting and controlling selective brain cooling and a supporting function for optionally suppressive control of selective brain cooling. and a selective brain cooling control support function .

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